River Eden, Fife

River Eden, Fife

The River Eden is a river in Fife in Scotland, and is Fife's other principal river, along with the Leven. It is nearly 30 miles (48 kilometres) long and has a fall of around 90 metres (295 feet). It flows from Burnside, near the border with Perth & Kinross, across the Howe of Fife and through the market town of Cupar to Guardbridge, where it enters the North Sea via the Eden Estuary, an important conservation area for wading birds and a nature reserve. The river holds a good stock of wild brown trout and hosts a fair run of sea trout and salmon.

In previous centuries, its water was used to power mills on its banks, and a paper mill remains at Guardbridge to this day.

Firth of Tay and Eden Estuary was designated a Ramsar site on July 28, 2000.

External links

* [http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst57.html Scottish gazetteer on the river]


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